caraa

so you are saying you got an interview at UC Irvine? How did you hear? Just wondering since I applied there too...

Sweet. I don't know whether they do interviews, do you?

i SOOO agree with you on the sunday/monday thing...this sunday is gonna be a lonnng one, tomorrow can't come soon enough!

from what i gather, the chances of being accepted from interview is around 1 in 3...would people agree with me on this? when i interviewed for MICA hoffberger last year, i think they said they interviewed about 25 candidates for 8 spots. you said you applied to pratt, me too. where else? i think ur the only other person who mentioned pratt this year in this forum so far...did you apply for the painting program?

thanks! do you have a site with your work? i wonder if either of us will hear from mica anytime soon...when i got a hoffberger interview last year, they notified me on the 16th...

Dang. There goes another one for me. But thanks so much for posting that and for joining our convo here--and congrats on being shortlisted! Let us know if u hear anything more. Where else did you apply?

i'm applying to UCI! just got the same email. doesn't seem like it meant much besides they got my fafsa info and to set up my id. and there's nothing useful (yet) that i can see in my UCINet account...i can't even find any info on my app or anything...

yeah i'm bummed about that too, but even more so about not hearing from PennDesign; i thought it looked like it could be a good fit. let's not compleeetely give up on the possibility, but i think u are right to frame it in your head like 3 down 8 to go because last year i was way too hopeful and after waiting months to hear back from schools i was still crushed to get my rejections (it's so cruel of them to have waited so long!). so yeah, 3 down 8 to go for me as well. (or maybe 4 down? i don't know about this cca shit)

thanks! i sure hope so

arggggh. i have been talking to cca on phone and email today. when i called, the woman said everything was fine, reviews were still going on, and all my stuff was there. but when i emailed the grad director i got a response saying that i should have used slideroom, that OTHER grad programs allow u to use a website url, but not this one. they apologized for the confusion, but WTF??? why couldn't they have told me that my portfolio was missing instead of telling me all my app items were there, safe and sound? i'm pissed. CCA interviews are going on today for chrissakes. in any case, i submitted a slideroom portfolio to them and i'm am sooo hoping that this doesn't hurt my application, though it seems quite obvious that it has. meanwhile, people are getting interviews from penndesign and northwestern too, so i'm assuming that's bad news for me on those fronts. i was so hoping that this year wouldn't be like last year, but so far, it is worse. anyway, thank you guys for advising me on the cca glitch, i'm glad i did something about it!

same here.

Congrats!!! I applied there too...wondering if I'll hear from them anytime soon. Is it an in-person interview? Did they give you any indication of why they are doing the interview despite what they say about not doing them?

Thanks so much you guys, I am going to email them now and try to call them tomorrow. They have really got me confused...This is what it said on the application online: "Your portfolio can include still images, time-based media, interactive media, and URLs (web pages and websites). The portfolio must be submitted digitally and online only. Our system allows you to create a digital portfolio with required caption information. Digital video upload is also possible. Please indicate how you will be submitting your portfolio: SlideRoom URL To submit your digital portfolio via SlideRoom, please go to http://cca.slideroom.com. Please keep in mind that once your portfolio has been uploaded and submitted to the college no further changes can be made. There is $10 administrative fee to use this service. If you experience any technical issues, please email help@slideroom.com for assistance. To submit your digital portfolio as a website, please indicate the exact URL clearly on your résumé and/or personal statement. (If this is the case, you do not need to also submit a portfolio via SlideRoom.com.) The deadline to submit the portfolio is January 5, 2011." god dammit. based on yalls reactions, the problem must be in that i didn't use slideroom, but why would they say this shit? maybe using URLs was just for people with video work? i don't fucking know. FUCK

yay for Memphis! I went to Rhodes as an undergrad, graduated in '09...living back up north now, but I miss Memphis so much! @ECM: i looove your work, it is absolutely stunning. i could look at those images for hours. @jmc2011: your work sounds cool, do you have a site? like jmc2011 and Payne, I am a figurative painter also. i was rejected from Yale too. I've found it very frustrating that many programs really don't seem to be very figurative-friendly....i feel like i just don't see much figurative work being done by current students, but maybe that's an inaccurate judgment and it's just that I'm expecting to see more of it than I am. good luck to all of you with interviews!

OK, is it stupid to be freaking out about this: People have already heard from CCA about getting interviews, it seems. I applied there, and as my portfolio submission I chose the option to provide the URL to my work on my website rather than use slideroom. I feel like something went wrong, because I have been checking my website traffic everyday and still there is nothing from a cca.edu server, nor any hits from zip codes in that area at all. Why are they already setting up interviews with those who make the first cut, if they haven't even looked at some people's (my) work yet? it has been bugging me for a week now. WTF Any thoughts?

I wanted to at least apply to one place in London, to cast my net over there, and after much debate between slade, royal college, and goldsmiths I decided slade seemed best for me. goldsmiths seemed a lil too conceptual (i think? I'm still not so informed on what the schools are like, just kinda went with my gut), and RCA is just so expensive.

hahahaha this is great! i don't remember much of my dreams lately, but I can bet that I've had some similar to yours! All that anxiety and, at this point, lack of control, over our fate is just killerrrrr

Those are good questions. I applied this year for the second time to two of the schools I applied to last year, MICA and RISD (plus 9 schools to which I hadn't previously applied). And it turned out that about half of my portfolio was new stuff, and half was stuff that they saw last year. I have no idea whether this is ok or frowned upon, I just took the chance and we shall see. I think hullo definitely has a good point to use other resources, BUT i will say that last year's application process made me much more prepared for this year's. I am definitely glad I got that experience last year of going through the motions: doing the apps, having a couple interviews. This time around, I know more of what to expect. So, I would say that if you have the time and energy, apply to some places at the end of the year. But I definitely wouldn't recommend just applying to your "dream school." Sure, apply to that, but also apply to some that don't have such slim acceptance rates. Try to get through the first round of the app process and get some interviews; that will really help and, it is the only way of getting an inkling of what they think of your work...because, in my experience, the only solid "feedback" about your work that you get from the process comes from the words "rejected" or "accepted." Admissions committees don't seem to have time to tell you what they like and dislike about your work. That's why the grad portfolio day is such a great thing--it's the only chance I've had where they DO tell you that stuff.

Here's my list of 11. So far, I've heard from one school. Yale - rejected Slade Pratt CCA Mills UCSD UC Irvine UPenn Northwestern MICA RISD

Mi heard from them on Friday, rejected as well One down, 10 to go...

thanks for the tidbits on those two programs! (i think i was the one asking) btw, i have sooo done exactly the type of last-minute/procrastination bullshit you are describing, many times over. i think some of us just work that way...believe me, i think that there is some kind of productive craze that comes out of procrastinating. as dangerous as it can be, it isn't always a bad thing

here is a link to my tumblr site, which includes images of some of the paintings that comprised my app portfolio: caraa's link

Yeah, i remember reading last year in this forum about people who were getting columbia interviews. Last year, I got into UW Madison without an interview. MICA Hoffberger, on the other hand, interviewed me and definitely requires that for shortlisted candidates. I'm wondering though about some of the schools I'm applying to this year: does anyone know whether CCA, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Mills, Northwestern, or UPenn require interviews for their shortlist?

@Demain: Thanks for that informative post! Very helpful. I'm wondering, what do you know about UC Irvine? Have you visited? I applied there, but have never visited...

Meant to reply to this a while ago, but anyway...I get away with it because I'd been living rent-free when I moved home. My dads a farmer, and he had a barn with an apt in it that he wasn't using, so he let my bf and me move in there, as long as we did some work to fix it up. I also receive Massachusetts' nearly-free health insurance; my age, earnings, and whatnot made me eligible. Plus, my pay at the wine store has actually been enough. Those factors made it possible to make ends meet. However, since then, we've moved into an apt where we pay rent, and fortunately by bf has been making enough to hold us over, but I'm not sure how long that'll last.... I paid for app fees mostly with money I got at Christmas from family members. Thank god for them. It's such a legitimate question, especially when it comes to how the hell I'm going to afford paying for school, and how I'll afford paying off loans thereafter... It'll never be easy, that's for sure.